So th Clown Prince of the Congress refuses to learn from his mistakes yet again...about the pricing of the aircraft, the deal which the UPA Government didn’t conclude due to the fact that they couldn’t give the benefits to their preferred middlemen, was for the bare (1/n) https://twitter.com/rahulgandhi/status/1288474530302705664

Body of the aircraft ONLY, without any weaponry system or anything on it. The deal which the NDA Government concluded in 2016 with Shri Manohar Parrikar as the RM was for the whole aircraft with weaponry, radars & other IAF-specific modules fitted on each fighter jet (2/n)

With such weaponry system & other IAF-specific upgrades on every fighter jet, the costs are going to be higher, but in the end, it would work out much cheaper than buying just a bare aircraft & then fitting weapons & other such implements on it. Second, about the 126 (3/n)

Fighter jets deal which your Government was supposed to conclude, that never happened considering that you deliberately dragged your feet on the deal as you couldn’t get the Christian Michels, Sanjay Bhandaris & the Quattrochhis to come in & claim their share of the pie (4/n)

So your point itself becomes worthless. The 36 jets were ordered as they were the immediate requirement of the Air Force so that they could get a squadron each deployed on the Pakistan & the China border Air Force stations respectively. And thirdly, the offset (5/n)

Deal that Dassault struck with Anil Ambani is just one of the many offset deals they’ve struck with many other Indian manufacturers as part of the deal & his company has a minuscule share of the offset contract, which Dassault struck out of their own free will (6/n)